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Bonus: "Ignore all previous instructions" gets weirder

Add particular strings of nonsense-sounding characters to your request and LLM chatbots will do whatever you ask for. Chatbot output is fundamentally nothing like human conversation.

An exercise in frustration

There's an anonymous facebook posting that's been making the rounds, in which a studio art director tried to hire AI prompters to make art, only to discover that they were completely unable to carry out minor revision requests. Asked to remove a person from a shot

Bonus: A unicorn goes downhill

Hidden 3D Pictures

Do you know those autostereograms with the hidden 3D pictures? Images like the Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s that look like noisy repeating patterns until you defocus your eyes just right?

ChatGPT can generate them!

At least according to ChatGPT.

Me: Please generate a magic eye 3D stereo image of a dolphin. ChatGPT: Generates a highly detailed image in psychedelic colors and repeated patterns - with the dolphin not hidden in a 3D stereo effect, but plainly, immediately visible. ChatGPT's caption: "I've created a magic eye 3D stereogram for you. If you relax your vision and look through the image, you should be able to see a hidden 3D image of a dolphin. Enjoy discovering it!"

I've seen people try making Magic Eye-style

Hidden sheep